New York City

Since our founding in 1990, we have been at the forefront of advocacy efforts to ensure that New York City provides housing and related supportive services to low-income and homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. We closely track the city agency charged with overseeing subsidies for poor New Yorkers with AIDS, the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), and we push for improvements and expansion of HASA services.

Every year, we doggedly lobby the mayor and city council to make the best funding decisions around HIV prevention and care, especially for those most at-risk: drug users, transgender people, people of color, the poor, the homeless, and those with mental illnesses. Sometimes our lobbying takes the form of rallies, protests, and creative civil disobedience actions.

The next steps towards Ending the AIDS Epidemic in New York State by 2020 are underway. A series of statewide regional discussions are being scheduled to engage community partners in moving the Ending the Epidemic Blueprint into Action! Participants will receive updated information about HIV/AIDS in …

On July 8th, the End AIDS NY 2020 Community Coalition hosted an Ending the Epidemic summit entitled “Ending AIDS 2020: Blueprint to Action,” at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. This community event officially launched implementation of the Ending the Epidemic Blueprint, …

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OUR MISSIONHousing Works is a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Our mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain our efforts.